(31 May 2025, 10:42 pm)PH - BQA wrote The following services are all longer distance than the X10, and are operated from a bus station without issue:
685, X12, X15, X16, X18, X20, X74
Not sure why the X10 is any different to the above?
Nature of the route?
Not sure any of the above have routes as intense as the X10.
(31 May 2025, 8:22 pm)Storx wrote Sorry was talking about Eldon Square there but Haymarket has had coaches with the 518 etc back in the day aswell tbf.
I know this is a bit off topic from this but Newcastle badly needs a decent coach station or at least some reasonable place as the National Express coach station is a complete dive and miles out of the way and John Dobson Street is completely unacceptable imo and has nothing bar a post. Whatever the solution is, is probably where the X10 really should be leaving from since it's long distance aswell. It's something that's never really spoke about, pretty much every other city in the country including Sunderland, has a much better coach station than Newcastle. Mind it wouldn't take much as a basic bus shelter would be better that what we've got right now.
The 685 managed OK in Eldon Square when it was coach operated didn't it?